The University of Southampton has consolidated its position amongst the UK’s top 15 institutions by placing 14th overall in the 2016 Guardian University Guide. The climb of five places from last year follows Southampton’s rise to 14th in the recent table published by the Complete University Guide.
The University is also celebrating after achieving two number one ratings in The Guardian’s subject tables. Southampton returns to the top spot for Electrical and Electronic Engineering – the fifth time in seven years the University has led this table. Southampton also comes first for Media and Film Studies, rising from 9th last year.
In terms of subject rankings, we’ve scored the following top 10 finishes:
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2nd last year) and Media & Film Studies (9th last year) – both 1st
- Education – 3rd (up 7 places from last year)
- Civil Engineering – 4th (up 1 place from last year)
- Mechanical Engineering – 4th (down 2 places from last year, 11th consecutive year for Mech Eng in top 10 in the Guardian)
- English & Creative Writing – 5th (up 5 places from last year and up from 19th the previous year)
- Computer Science & Information Systems – 7th (up 1 place from last year)
- Modern Languages & Linguistics – 8th (10th consecutive year in top 10 in the Guardian)
- Fashion & Textiles – 8th (up one place from last year – made a large jump in last year’s table from 25th to 9th)
- Philosophy – 8th (up 10 places from last year)
- Health Professions – 10th (up 7 places from last year)
- Music – 10th (up 10 places from last year)
- Psychology – 10th (up 3 places from last year)
The full subject tables can be found on the Guardian website.